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AC9HH9S04 Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences

AC9HH9S04 | Year 9 History: Using historical sources

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor explain the usefulness of primary and secondary sources, and the reliability of the information as evidence
Strand
Skills
Substrand
Using historical sources

This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 9 History. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration identifying that the reliability and usefulness of a source depends on the questions asked of it, such as an account having a particular historical perspective and therefore being of use in revealing past prevailing attitudes
  • • Elaboration determining the extent to which the accuracy or purpose of a source affects its usefulness

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